英国每日邮报:意大利历史学家,小说家帕拉蒂科的一项最新研究称,达芬奇的母亲很有可能是一名中国奴隶,而他的名作"蒙娜丽莎"正是其画像.

Daily Mail: according to new research by an Italian historian and novelist, Leonardo da Vinci's mother may have been a Chinese slave.

Angelo Paratico has spent the last 20 years living and working in Hong Kong, researching the links between his homeland and China over the past half a millenium.

Mr Paratico said documentation he has uncovered during two years of research forms the basis of his latest book Leonardo Da Vinci: A Chinese scholar lost in Renaissance Italy.

The book, which is due to be published next year, uncovers evidence, Mr Paratico claims, that links Da Vinci and the Far East.